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Belgian Standard Dutch

Dutch is a language spoken by about 20 million people in the Netherlands and Belgium. This region is not only characterised by a complex dialect situation, but also by the use of two institutionalised varieties of the Standard language: Netherlandic Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands and is documented in Collins & Mees (1982), Mees & Collins (1983) and Gussenhoven (1999), while Belgian Dutch is...

Belgian Society for Pneumology

1. DuBois AB, Brody AW, Lewis DH, Burgess DF. Oscillation mechanics of lungs and chest in man. J Appl Physiol, 1956, 8, 587-594. 2. Michaelson ED, Grassman ED, Peters WR. Pulmonary mechanics by spectral analysis of forced random noise. J Clin Invest, 1975, 56, 1210-1230. 3. Peslin, Fredberg JJ. Oscillation mechanics of the respiratory system. In: Handbook of Physiology, Section 3, Vol. III. Mec...

Cutaneous Anthrax, Belgian Traveler

A new tick-transmitted disease due to Rickettsia slovaca. Dermacentor-borne necrosis erythema and lymphadenopathy: clinical and epidemiological features of a new tick-borne disease.tion of murine typhus and epidemic typhus using cross-adsorption and western blotting. Clin Diag Lab Immunol. 2000;7:612–6. 7. La Scola B, Raoult D. Laboratory diagnosis of rickettsioses: current approaches to the di...

Belgian Society for Pneumology

400 Jlg fenoterol; (C) 200 Jlg oxitropium bromide; and (D) a combination of (B) and (C). The exercise protocol consisted in a 10 W·min-1 progressively increasing load on a bicycle until ~evere dyspnoea and/or exhaustion. Minute ventilation (VE) and derivates (tidal volume (VT), mean inspiratory flow (VT!fi), inspiratory time as a fraction of total breath duration (VI/Vtot), b,reathing frequency...

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